I feel the same..The first avatar I saw of BSO's was that black guy (It was so grainy, It looked like DeSheilds, but I'm not sure).
To this day, that is how I picture Bso...
and now that he is an African Jew...
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.